Foreign News: In a Strange Country

The jury which sat in the big, glass-ceilinged criminal court in
London's Old Bailey last week was like any other: nine men and three
women bent on bringing in a just verdict. Looking at them as he made
his final address, Britain's Attorney General Sir Lionel Heald was
moved to remark: "You are like travelers in a strange country." The
metaphor was apt: few stranger countries have been thrown open for
exploration than the mind of John Reginald Halliday Christie, confessed
murderer of seven women.